skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find that very unlikely if you have any appliances at all. Multiple it by ten and I might start to believe you. For reference, right now we, granted in a four person household and electric heating in the coldest winter month, are using around 100 kWh per day. Even when the house is unoccupied in the summer the consumption is around 3.5 kWh per day. That is probably mostly just a fridge and two freezers.
Really though how realistic is your business model ... if you wanted a autonomous network to replace Uber Currently 30 million cars on road . you would atleast need 10 million cars
assuming each car costs 100k ( optimistically with lidar tech factoring in capex for factories and you dont have major product revisions ) thats 1 trillion in capex ... now you if you had the revenue of apple in 2020 ~ 0.25T$ you could expect to be cashflow positive in 7~8 years (assuming exponential ramp up of production and 0 competition) ... all of these thing need to happen for this taxi service X to succeed ,i think to get all these things right is highly unlikely and i feel Elon knows this aswell so he took the path of simpler tech and trying a software service model which is infinitely more scale-able .
Didn't they actually blame the pilots initially?
So would you say that according to their terms of use they could just upload my messages to their servers for data-mining?

If you would say so, you would be wrong: https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/security-and-privacy/end-to...
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I received the popup a couple of times to accept the new TOS and rejected it each time, but it has stopped showing itself. I fear I may have accidently accepted it. Does anyone know how can I check what my TOS-acceptance status is (whether my device thinks I accepted or not)? I really do not consent with Facebook owning my address book.
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Looks like it can have adverse side effects and it's very easy to overdose, leading to fatal organ failure. Also several factors, like existing medication or just consuming grapefruit juice, can affect concentration in the body.
If my understanding is correct, it's to be administered early, after a positive PCR test. But only a fraction of the infections lead to hospitalization with serious symptoms. I don't know the numbers, but let's say, if 10 people die out of 10000 because of COVID, what's the point in taking the med if 10 people also might die because of it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colchicine
There's so much of misinformation spreading about what exactly was going to change in privacy policy of WA. For instance, there's rumour that fb will be able to read messages, shared location etc despite having E2E encryption (how's that possible? backdoor?). could someone please decode the proposed policy of WA?
You'd be a negligible minority.
anyone got any details of what changes Boeing needs to make in order to fly a 737Max again ?

I have read SW update, but also ongoing changes. It looks like there are others changes in the pipeline, but the 737Max can fly without these changes.
Usage of Blockchain Technology in Aerospace/Aviation Industry
There are a couple more PDFs linked in the same page. What did you find lacking in the safety performance data whitepaper?
You know that it's summer in Australia now, right?
How do you know it's misinformation if you need a decomposition of the proposed policy itself?
Author and contributors are here for your questions
> I decided to reduce my sugar [...] you can't exactly take the salt out of a meal or extract the sugar from a dessert.

People have very different approaches to changing their nutrition, but when it comes to sugar, my personal approach is a very "macro" one: Don't eat dessert. It's much easier than to eat dessert but fret about how much sugar is in there.
And better readability is more important than ascii art.
> I remain unconvinced about it's practical real-world applications.

When your idea of "real-world" is one where all people have access to stable, robust and functional institutions, it's no surprise that you don't see the necessity of alternatives.

Consider it a privilege. And I don't mean it in a derogatory way.
> At least in my (very narrow) experience I have not seen much evidence for qualitative innovation in china

This argument never sounded very true and intellectually honest to me. I mean, I want to believe in it, but when I scrutinize it precisely, I wonder - how can you measure the ability to innovate of someone who doesn't want (or need) to innovate?

At present time, China's competitive advantage is cheap specialized labour, and they're taking full advantage of that - as they should. That's the whole point of being behind in technology and racing to catc up! It might very well be that when they switch their focus, from copying to innovating, they'd be very good at that as well (or very bad! we literally have very little data to tell)
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The article is citing needing 6-8 panels between 320-330 watts to charge a Tesla Model S; 8 if you live in the northeast United States (it's not backyard orientation, it's about where you live geographically), 6 if you live in the southwest United States. The "small" Tesla panel arrays that I mentioned are 4.08 kilowatts [1], which is more than enough even in the northeast to charge a Model S, or any EV. They take up 240sqft, which would fit in most backyards, although a roof mount would of course be preferable both because it'll get less shade and because it won't take up backyard space, unless you have a lot of open backyard space away from any existing structures.

Really. There's a reason Tesla sells solar panels, and it's because they can charge the cars Tesla makes. They can also lower your electric bills (or drop them to zero, or make you money depending on the region you live in), since even the smallest panel array they sell produces more electricity than an average American driver needs per year for an EV.

1: https://www.tesla.com/support/energy/solar-panels/going-sola...
Will prison really do that? Would any other way not do that? Like helping him with his addiction, etc.
We need a website which will list all airlines which have at least one 737 Max in stock or on order and make it easy for customers to find out what % of the fleet is the 737 Max, so customers can take that into account when booking flights and so that airlines know that having a Boeing 737 Max has a direct negative impact on their sales figures.

Even if Boeing truly fixes the plane, they should never get away with this. The sheer ignorance and negligence which led to the unnecessary death of so many passengers is mass murder in my eyes.
Anecdotally, the people I know who say they won't fly in a 737 max in the future and who know how to check (or ask the staff booking their plane tickets for them to check) for that are also the frequent flyers who fly in first class/business class.

I wonder if it might be a minority that is significant to the bottom line.
It is amazing how Facebook is sure about power of it's and Messanger network effect, that it sacrifices WhatsApp to advertise the company transparency.
But you can do that already with a plug-in hybrid!
Efficient to what end? The whole purpose of representative democracy is that we disagree on what we are trying to achieve, but still need to have a somewhat coherent plan. Autocracies are "efficient" only in the sense that they skip a bulk of the work.
The people getting vaccinated right now are those that are, by far, most at risk. Every single extra vacation right now has a high chance of saving a life, which is much less true for the vaccinations that are administered when reaching the numbers that you care about.

Also, I don’t know where you live, but I think in most places on earth you can legally have dinner with a small amount of friends, without some “influential” person giving you permission.
People don't like Facebook for various reasons.

Misconceptions, misinformation, FUD, ignorance... See other posts, some of the things that have been circulating are indeed quite frightening... If true.
Indeed. OP is painfully finding out why the visible costs of using open alternatives are massively outweighed by the hidden costs of not using them.
> Modern cars are terrible

Huh! My experience is the opposite. Modern cars are engineering marvels.

> the UX is horrid

My car's UX is absolutely delightful. I have well defined controls (steering wheel, brake pedal, clutch pedal, accelerator pedal, gear shift, light buttons) that are close to 100% reliable and easy to operate. The car works every time just as I expect it to. No surprises, no bs.

> the software never gets updated

Why would I ever want to update my car's software?? It works perfectly. It is almost 13 years old and I don't recall ever encountering a software bug. I'm sure I will continue to use this car as long as my local RTO continues to renew the license.

> look and feel of a good middle class car is just trash.

Now this is subjective, so I'll let you have this one.

I'm sure your Tesla is way better to drive than my $10k car, but that's not to say modern cars are "terrible". They are absolutely amazing.
This is a major practical advance from the succinct data structure community.

This community has produced so many brilliant results in the past years. But, they work in the shadows. Since the rise of interest in neural network methods, I've often described their work as "machine learning where epsilon goes to 0." It's not sexy, but it is extremely useful.

For instance, Ferragina previously helped to develop the FM-index that enabled the sequence alignment algorithms used for the primary analysis of short genomic reads (100-250bp). These tools were simply transformative, because they reduced the amount of memory required to write genome mappers by orders of magnitude, allowing the construction of full-text indexes of the genome on what was then (~2009) commodity hardware.
There's still mechanical failure to deal with.
That article (from 1979) indicates that the only legal restriction is that it must be dispensed into an approved container.

More recent advice from the API indicates that fire codes usually restrict the storage of more than 25 gallons (~95 L) at home. Many people in rural areas would have orders of magnitude more than that.

So it seems that, in the US at least, it's not illegal all over.

API Source: https://www.api.org/oil-and-natural-gas/consumer-information...
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What are you even talking about?

I will do that not to protest against Boeing, but to save my own life.

I don’t care if I am a negligible minority in Boeing’s or yours eyes
>However, in the unlikely scenario that 2D videos are sufficient for L5 self-driving, Tesla wins BIG. No one will be even close, especially due to the scale of 2D data that they have gathered.

Potentially Tesla's 2D data lead means they will still be the leader even if the compute resources in the current cars isn't up to the task, and maybe even if they have to add additional sensors like lidar. They can probably retrain their models and still get a lot of out of it.

My personal guess is that full 3D lidar isn't needed, but some additional cameras and other cheap sensors probably are. There's a ton of stuff that costs a fraction of the cost of lidar that might fill in the gaps.
You can usually see the aircraft being flown when booking a ticket.
The main issue is that both Boeing and Airline companies who are shady enough to buy this at a discount, will also actively re-brand the airplane so that it is no longer named 737-MAX.

As an example, Ryanair already ordered a batch at a bargain price and relabeled the MAX as a new aircraft '737-8200'.
Cybertruck Will Float
Elon just said Cybertruck will float.
And this is my idea for Tesla merch.
With the success of Travala recently, I can only see blockchain in this space growing decade on decade...once we get over this pandemic of course!
Nah, I’ll bend the world to my way of doing things. It’s better.

Feynman had a funny story about this. I’m no Feynman, but he invented new ways of writing sin, cos, etc. He said he disliked the way it looked, since cos(x) looks like cos multiplied by x. And of course the story ended with the same punchline you outlined: when you want to talk to others, you need shared vocabulary.

But the thing is, it’s extremely easy to remember to say “loss” instead of “penalty” when I’m talking to someone. But it was extremely hard for me to even understand what the heck a loss was. What is it, exactly? What’s it doing and why? How should I think about it — and more importantly, how can I extrapolate that thinking to take advantage of it?

Maybe it’s a personal quirk, but I simply couldn’t understand loss. I know penalty though. Ditto tor learning rate vs step size. So it’s more of “internal advice” rather than me saying that you should rewrite your papers with the new names.

EDIT: By the way, I wasn't proposing that "penalty be renamed to "regularization". I was under the impression that what the parent comment was calling penalty" was normally called "regularization", i.e. that regularization was the formal name for it. If that's not true, it's possible my understanding is incomplete -- what is penalty? I haven't heard of it till now, to be honest. And googling for "machine learning penalty" pops up 5 articles on regularization.

So I was proposing two changes: loss -> penalty, and learning rate -> step size.
Renewable Power Beat Fossil Fuels in EU for First Time Last Year
>proportional fonts and the entire study of kerning exists to improve readability.

Any pointers to an actual scientific study to back this?
Indeed - I switched to Windows a while back and I've been genuinely impressed with how much more stable the system is.
The driver is a huge part of the cost of a taxi ride (even with Uber subsidising them unsustainably with investor's money). An autonomous car company can price a journey at about the same as a bus ticket for a point-to-point on-demand journey and still make money hand over fist with their first generation hardware. Even for commuters this could be substantially cheaper than a car.
Yeah. But at least initially maybe things were still unclear to some folks. Why are they still ignoring the root cause now?
Nissan LEAFs (since the first generation I think) have had the tech built into the car to support this, but so far the corresponding hardware to connect it to the grid hasn't been available outside Japan. In the UK trials are starting for it now:

https://youtu.be/kl9_cWF7fXo
I don't think the data couldn't be useful, I just don't think it's worth it.

The first problem is how will you collect this data? Self report? Assigned by the government based on your parents? DNA test?

Who will you give this data to?

What will you do with the conclusions? Say for Covid-19, will you make rules stricter for some ethnicities? Or prioritize them for vaccines?

How do you even know how correct this data is? There's a big correlation between ethnicities, wealth and social customs. Or do you want to give the researchers also information about that?

For me all the answers on those questions are negative. I see no way to do this in an ethical way.

We already know there are issues with equality, employment etc of some ethnicities, I think collecting statistics on it will only make the racists in our society believe stronger in their views. I don't believe we can stop racism by introducing more (positive) racism.
I'd pick a different classification. It's more like these groups:

1. Uses whatsapp out of momentum. Doesn't want to use anything else, but might if people really push them; i.e. open to transition to group 2.

2. Will use whatever. Some people in this group want to stop using whatsapp, but won't break contacts to do so. Some people in this group would prefer to stick with whatsapp to avoid the burden of a switch, but won't break contacts to do so. This is the vast majority of switchers.

3. Die hard whatsapp users. Simply refuse to switch to another app, because it's a hassle, and/or because they begrudge other people making a mountain out of a molehill and asking them to do anything. Might oppose yet-another-app; or might actually want to stick to whatsapp because they actually like the simplicity of the network effect.

4. Die hard non-whatsapp (likely signal?) users. Refuse to use whatsapp, likely due to privacy concerns or distrust of facebook.

I don't think most people trying to switch away from whatsapp are in 4. Anecdotally, I people I know asking to switch are clearly in 2, and are largely losing to those in 3. Only 1 person I know claims to be in 4, but I'm not really sure that'll stick if the exodus doesn't keep momentum. Because of the existance of the bulk of humanity which barely cares about this, and some of which will get annoyed at the suggestion - I suspect group 3 is much, much larger than 4, and that suggests this exodus will fall flat. The only real chance here is that since this is all about closed groups that network effects aren't so huge, so a considerable exodus without actual terminal velocity is possible.
They can change it last minute and will certainly do so if they know that people look for it during booking. I rather book only with airlines which don't even have a 737 max in their hanger.
Hacker leaks data of 2.28M dating site users
Grayscale Adds $120M in Its Bitcoin Holdings as Institutional Interest Continued
and yet states that didn't - and aren't - locking down - like Florida - are doing fine. Or better than states that have extensive lockdowns like New York, New Jersey and California...

> Political reasons ... aggressive lockdowns in Australia

Locking down a small country like Australia is much different than locking down a country like the US. Australia is only 20% smaller than the US yet has 10% of the population. The layout is different. Temperature. Density. etc.

https://www.indexmundi.com/factbook/compare/united-states.au...

Locking down Australia would be like locking down one of our less densely populated states - not only does the President not have the ability to do it - he's a President not a King... but locking down the country make zero sense for a virus with a 99%+ survival rate.

again... we can take precautions to protect our hospitals and to "flatten the curve" (which we are loooooong past) and to protect the vulnerable (old, existing conditions, etc)... but locking down America? Coast to coast? No chance this side of turning the President into a Dictator - which was never on the table for Trump and definitely not for Biden.
Did people use their feet to make them?
They (Facebook) have done this before too. I recall that they bought full-page ads in all major newspapers to promote their "Free Basics" initiative.

There are also other examples, but I consider this level of advertising by them to be very desperate.
> As an open source creator, you essentially are giving away your labour to the community as charity.

I don't understand. I required people to pay me before getting access to the source code, under the MIT license. Knowing also that my customers were unlikely to redistribute the code further.

How is that giving away my labour into the community?
Simulations show that continuous habitability of earth for 4GY was dumb luck
Doesn't SF have the highest concentration of Michelin star restaurants ?
From May 2019 to January 2020 we used 706kWh. I have a fridge but no other appliances that constantly draw power. I don't heat electrically, but I cook using electricity. I run the washing machine about once a week or so and hang-dry the clothes.

I guess I've used a bit more electricity during the last year because I worked from home more, but I doubt it's a factor 10. 100kWh per day would cost more than I pay for rent...
I don't really read conspiracy theories.
It probably makes sense to find one or two allies in the group (by talking offline) before proposing the change. I think that's how they did it for my older kids WhatsApp group.

(I'm not sure because I was one of the obnoxious parents who refused to install WhatsApp in the first place. I was a bit surprised when the group suddenly decided to move to Signal)
The Case for Learned Index Structures
Tim Kraska, Alex Beutel, Ed H. Chi, Jeffrey Dean, Neoklis Polyzotis

"Our initial results show, that by using neural nets we are able to outperform cache-optimized B-Trees by up to 70% in speed while saving an order-of-magnitude in memory over several real-world data sets. More importantly though, we believe that the idea of replacing core components of a data management system through learned models has far reaching implications for future systems designs and that this work just provides a glimpse of what might be possible."

https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01208
While spatial awareness is important during driving,I believe being focused on driving is even more so.

When driving the tight streets of old European cities with pedestrians jumping out everywhere, I usually watch for hints like too tall cars parked on the sidewalk and potentially hiding pedestrians planning to cross the street, and move my foot from the gas to hovering above the brake pedal. And a million other things like that, mostly by paying close attention to driving.

Sure, I believe my spatial awareness is also great, but that helps me to parallel park in fewer back-and-forths or to remember a way to a place I've been to once six months ago through a maze of one way streets. But it does not help me reduce the chances of an impactful collision (sure, I might ding a car on the parking lot or not because of it, but nobody is going to get hurt because of that).

You are right that cars are not safe, but for some part, you've got control of the risk yourself. I also watch for hints a car will swerve in front of me, and I am sure I've helped avoid 100s of traffic accidents by being focused on the whole driving task. And other drivers have helped avoid traffic accidents that I would have caused in probably a dozen cases too. I think I am an above average driver simply because of that ratio.

You run similar risks when you board a public bus without knowing how the driver feels that day, and how focused they generally are.
If I may drop in with a bit of shameless self-promotion.

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https://aiprobook.com/deep-learning-for-programmers/

Here's the open source library built throughout the book:

https://github.com/uncomplicate/deep-diamond

Some chapters from the beginning of the book are available on my blog, as a tutorial series:

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you sure you want heavy metal salts just laying around in a huge lake of brine? not sure if this is a workable proposition.
The idea is very cool. The criticism against existing cryptocurrencies being too volatile is very valid. I can't help but wonder if this just contributes a "15th" stablecoin to the "14" competing stablecoin standards.

https://xkcd.com/927/

My personal expectation is that the existing frontrunners, Bitcoin and Ethereum, will stabilize in price as the percentage of retail speculators decreases and the percentage of institutional investors + users increase.
Safety critical regulations, it seems. That gets close enough to "brake things" if you aks me.
If you're interested in the mathematical background, I can highly recommend: https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/decisions-decisions-or-why...
R1.3B worth of IP addresses stolen in brazen heist